Hardware Analysis & Design Engineer - Entry to Mid Level (Maryland)

US National Security Agency/Central Security Service; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

US National Security Agency/Central Security Service seeks candidates with a bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, or mathematics to design, develop, and analyze electronic hardware and software processing components for national defense.

Entry is with a Bachelor's degree and no experience; higher levels require 3 years' relevant work or a Master’s with 1 year; doctoral degree with no experience is also noted. Coursework requirements are specified to ensure foundational knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or a related field; ABET-EAC accreditation required or the curriculum must include specified coursework.
• Specified coursework includes differential and integral calculus and 5 of the 18 listed areas.

Responsibilities

• Designing, developing, analyzing, testing, or constructing hardware, software, or firmware components or systems.
• Reverse engineering hardware, software or firmware.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics, or related field

Job description

NSA is seeking professionals to design, develop, construct, evaluate, and analyze electronic hardware and software processing components to solve emerging challenges. By applying your science and engineering skills, you will make a significant contribution to protecting the nation.

The qualifications listed are the minimum acceptable to be considered for the position.

Degree must be in Engineering, Computer Science, or Mathematics or a related field (for example, Chemistry, Physics, Architecture, Hydrology, Geology, Astronomy). For engineering degrees, if program is not ABET-EAC accredited, it must include specified coursework.* *

Specified coursework includes courses in differential and integral calculus and 5 of the following 18 areas:

• (a) statics or dynamics,
• (b) strength of materials/stress‑strain relationships,
• (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics,
• (d) thermodynamics,
• (e) electromagnetic fields,
• (f) nature and properties of materials/relating particle and aggregate structure to properties,
• (g) solid state electronics,
• (h) microprocessor applications,
• (i), computer systems,
• (j) signal processing,
• (k) digital design,
• (l) systems and control theory,
• (m) circuits or generalized circuits,
• (n) communication systems,
• (o) power systems,
• (p) computer networks,
• (q) software development,
• (r) Any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, or soil mechanics.

ENTRY/DEVELOPMENTAL

Entry is with a Bachelor's degree and no experience.

FULL PERFORMANCE

Entry is with a Bachelor's degree plus 3 years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree plus 1 year of relevant experience, or a Doctoral degree and no experience.

Relevant experience must be in one or more of the following:

• designing, developing, analyzing, testing, or constructing hardware, software, or firmware components or systems;
• reverse engineering hardware, software or firmware.